Who is God according to Islam
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Guest bio: Imam Omar Suleiman is the Founder and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and a professor of Islamic Studies at Southern Methodist University.
Hi Lex, nice to see and hear your podcast..ITS inspiring and no judgemental.. if you don't mind I also would like to give you additional information.. If you would like to know Islam in term of spiritual/esoteric/tasawuf/msyticism.. I would like to suggest you to invite Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin the editor in chief of the Rahnuma Daily Deccan newspaper.. he is the founder of alcyone technology, 12 steps to de-radicalize, and also the last important advice he Made was he give advices to Iranian Supreme leader envoy regarding Hijab Protest in Iran and not suprisingly the Iranian Supreme leader hear his advice and have amnesty to the protester..
thanks Lex and salam..may God Grant you health and prosperity
Islam and Catholicism are like cousins. When Khabib says Alhamdullilah I FEEL that. All things through God.
I can sit and listen to my Muslim cousins preach the good word all day.
They are like cousins whose parents where also cousins.
They both value works over faith as well.
Interesting idea. Why do you think that? I always thought Catholism is the farthest sect of Christianity to Islam with their idols (images and saints, jesus, trinity, etc) Granted those idols exist in other sects of Christianity as well, however, Catholicism seems to allow more pagan beliefs into itself as they were the first ones who encountered pagans and wanted to convert them and have the Christianity, a previously absolutely monotheistic religion, a sect of Judaism perhaps- corrupted as well. I would love to know your thoughts on that.
@@yazicib1 took the words right out of my mouth man. The only thing i feel all religion has in common with islam is the belief in god because the amount of work you have to put into being a muslim is incomparable period its a literal disconnect from the material world and pure focus on your relationship with god. Every other religion breaks the commandments one way or another and the vast majority only pray when its convenient to their situations.
@@almafuertegmailcom yes. cousin marriage is permissible and even encouraged in Islam.
This mans words are of beauty. Thank you Lex and thank you Omar for the beauty of this conversation. As a Christian, I have always been taught that non-Christians are to be cast out from your mind. But that is wrong. Love for your fellow man and Love for God, Beauty, and Wisdom knows no one denomination. Blessed be the Great God to whom me and Omar both derive our love to and from
Wow, better YT comment has never been written. Amen.
Have you ever heard the saying “all roads lead to God”? Simply put, it’s essentially that spiritually, there is a positive force of light, and a negative force of darkness, and that time, location, culture, customs, language, societal history, etc, means that though we all may call God by a different name, have different sacraments, different practices, different rituals, those are all merely functions of the differences listed above, but we all are praying to the same God, the same source of positivity, peace, and light.
Christianity complicates this a bit in that it says the ONLY way to the father is through the son, and that if you don’t believe in Jesus was literally son of God says to her to die for our sins, then there is no pathway to heaven. It’s always bothered me and seemed very contradictory growing up as a Christian. Christians believe that the Jews are gods chosen people, yet they don’t believe in Jesus as the Messiah, so according to this doctrine, they are doomed to hell... unless God gives them blanket immunity and a collective “get out of hell free card”, otherwise you must believe that Gods chosen ppl are doomed to hell (and Jews don’t even believe in hell), which is a concept I could never square.
My defining moment though was learning about Mahatma Gandhi in school. I had been, and when discussing him with my grandmother so despite this man living his life total service to others and helping more people than most individuals ever will in 10 lifetimes, because he doesn’t believe in Jesus. That was my “I’m done” moment. I don’t know what the “requirements“ are in Islam, if you must believe in Muhammad or face certain doom. Personally, I choose to believe the “all roads lead to God“ theory. Though we call it/him by different names, we are all praying to the same source of light & good, in opposition to the forces of darkness.
@@evergray5063 Beauty can be found everywhere that beauty is in. God is pure beauty. God is pure goodness. Any positive creation, whether emotional, spiritual, or physical is of God; different religions and denominations just have different interpretations. Heaven is not home to just Christians, although I am one, I believe that any person of most interpretations who has accepted Love and grace and lived a life of goodness and understanding may inherit Heaven. Anyone can achieve Heaven, it is the only guarantee in life other than death. I am Christian for it was my cultural raising, as well as my current religion and I am very faithful in God as well as Jesus. But I view my brothers and sisters of Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, etc. as being not lesser than me, but equal to and even higher than myself. Learning of God is not hailed to one special sect, but to all mankind. May beauty find all, may Heaven be within all’s grasp, and Hell under. Amen.
@@fricardo3 thank you, that has made my day. May you have a blessed day as well
What a peaceful conversation! 🤍🙏🏻
There are many paths to God, islam is just one path, the journey is the reward.........Having said that, I am very impressed with the Quran and Islam and cannot fault anyone who choses that path. Alhamdulillah - Praise be to God.
The quran states that there is no way for the one who seeks other than islam. So I'd religions are saying the others are wrong there aren't many paths. Stop stating this as fact
@@mammid9622 You are free to believe whatever you want. 2/3 of the worlds population believe you are wrong.
@@dennisharvey5852 so 2/3 of the world believes that there are multiple paths to god? Have you got any studies showing that?
@@mammid9622 There might only be one or maybe none because nobody actually knows for sure. According to the Apostle John 3;16 Jesus said he was the way. Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Christians, Muslims can't all be correct or can they ?
@Dennis Harvey what's that got to do with what I'm talking about? I'm simply disagreeing with you about there being multiple paths to god? I'm not arguing as to whether islam was true or not. And then you brought up how 2/3 of the world thought I was wrong. About what? Islam? I'm not even talking about islam.
This is beautiful expression of spiritual maturity and clarity. Excellent.
Lol
These guys are treasures! Omar explanation is ASMR to me
Arab Christians and muslim use the word Allah which means “the god”. Same god as in the Jewish faith too.
And the Hindus? They are polytheistic. That means they believe in different fairytales with multiple gods unlike your single god fairytale
FYI, even Jesus called God Allah ( alôh-ô). He spoke arameic . The world for God in arameic is alôh-ô
@@tannlegeoslo how does pointing to another goofy fairytale prove yours ? Unless you’re saying that you believe in Christianity? If so, that means your fairytale can’t be true if Christianity is real. I guess your stuck if that’s the reason you believe in the Muslim Sky Daddy claim.
@@marcwells03 Wanna get your so called "rational" worldview challenged by someone???
@@Muwahid999go ahead and tell me about the worldview of a person that believes in a prophet that was 52 when he married a 6 year old. Yuck! Pedo....
What a beautiful conversation...love it!
Is it just me or does the camera seem crisper and more HD or maybe it's just the lighting? I looks great.
I think you are picking up on the beard dye.
"The Force is an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, it penetrates us, it binds the universe together."
bro came in with the force
Use the force Lex…
@@xmarksthespot4916 HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!
Islam is a false religion
Stop throwing word without knowing what it mean,
What's Energy and What's Force
Go and look how scientists defined.
This whole conversation was so beautiful.
This was absolutely beautiful.
They describe God perfectly, as much as that is possible with words and in such a short time, yet they don't disrespect what the essence of God.
Peace be upon him. 🙏
Let's keep our judgements aside and listen to this well spoken man guys to learn more about Islam and the world/it's people. He speaks from the point of view of a person of faith. Personally, I'm agnostic however, it's always great to get content in the faiths around the world.
It's not great, all religions are evil and violent, and dedicated to lying to people and rotting their brains with make belief. Some are particularly evil, christianity, for example, has a very morbid past. Islam? Horrendous, it's directly responsible for the death and misery of a lot of people, from human rights violations of humans, atheists, homosexuals and other groups, to straight up acts of terrorism.
No, religion preaches hate, and shouldn't be tolerated so easily.
Besides, having imaginary friends as an adult is certifiably a mental health issue, so I don't think we should be listening to this guy, but maybe a psychiatrist should.
Thanks Lex for bringing and articulate Muslim to talk about Islam I have been waiting for someone to do this. Love the variety it your podcast, great guests l, great questions!
Beautiful episode.
Why do we ask people questions that we know they can't answer? How many of these questions are there?
i like this guy's whole demeanor, how at peace he seems.
Agree, but his believes are none sense of the highest order
@@climatefascism9870 Lmao ironically the only nonsense here is thinking what you believe in is superior or more factual than what he believes in, this is a matter of subjectivity.
You haven’t seen him around the wife.
Deep in the cult and brainwashed
You guys are pathetic lol. What’s your belief? Believing that the universe just came in randomly that morality is subjective and anyone can do anything? Yeah critique Omar Suleiman LOL
Wow,🤯 very profound wisdom from Dr. Omar.
"a natural disposition that everyone of us has to believe in him [god]" That is a fascinating assertion, but I wonder if there is any proof of this. Perhaps if instead of "everyone" he had said "most people"? But even then, what is his proof?
Evolution gave us the natural disposition to believe in a higher power. Thus so many different gods.
@@ubersheizer5398 Even if that is the case, it's really interesting how polytheistic religions or religions outside of the Abrahamic ones display their gods as human. Take the Greek gods for instance, they argue with one another and take on a social hierarchy. If it was just pure coincidence that Abrahamic religions were created, then why haven't we seen a religion that functions similarly to one without rooting from Judaism?
I feel like it's common sense imo. I imagine at some point in time everyone would ask the question "how did this all get here" and it'll eventually lead to some sort of "God" figure.
@@copboom555 Interesting questions. My understanding is that many of the old religions also have similarities that suggest they are branches of something even older. For example, I've read, no cite that Jupiter and Zeus are cognates for something like Sky Father, perhaps not completely surprising for two Indo European languages. I've read that they may also be cognate to a Norse god.
I also remember reading somewhere, again, sorry, no cite, that religions that originate in forest or jungle tend to be polytheist and religions that originate in deserts tend to be monotheistic, so maybe the pure coincidence is that the three best known Abrahamic religions originated in deserts? However, there are certainly counter examples of the forest vs desert.
Also, there are some people who have suggested that some parts of Judaism derive from ancient Mesopotamian writings.
@@copboom555 I have seen more than a few Scholars who study this suggest Judaism started out with multiple gods and then morphed into the current iteration. Not a coincidence the Abrahamic religions were created. The Jews thought of themselves as special. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism. There were very many back then but Christianity stuck. A big reason for that and for Islam growing so large is the whole recruitment factor. The other religions back then did not actively seek members and you could jump from one god to another. Like Constantine. He saw a vision of a cross and then won a battle. So he started following Christianity. If it had been some other vision he likely would have gone that route. Yes, people's gods reflected their human culture. If you read the Bible and the Koran you can see these are books written by men reflecting their cultures.
What an amazing conversation 😢
"what god wants; god gets"....R. Waters
Well if god didn't get what it wants, he is no longer god
is the slightly unscrewed water bottle cap in the lower left corner bothering anybody else...?
It is now, after reading your comment 🙈😂
odell beckham jr has had the wildest career trajectory
"'Beyond the construct of our imagination"
Words are descriptions.
Imagine the word "infinite". You can't.
Words are meaningful not necessarily descriptive or conceivable.
The names and attributes of Allah are known in meaning but not described or even conceivable. For example "The all seeing" "The all knowing" "The all aware" means no matter where you are what you are doing in secret or what you are thinking in your mind you cannot hide it from Allah.
This is the Aqeeda of Tawheed, meaning the essentials of belief in pure monotheism
1. Allah is one he has no partners
2. There is nothing like him
3. There is nothing that can overwhelm him.
4. There is no God other than him
5. He is eternal without a beginning and everlasting without end.
6. He will never perish or come to an end.
7. Nothing happens except what he wills
8. No imagination can conceive of him, and no understanding can comprehend him.
9. He does not resemble creation.
10. He is attributed with life, and is not subject to death.
11. He is eternal and not subject to rest or sleep.
12. He created without a need to create.
13. He is the sustainer provider for all without difficulty “.
14. He wills for death of his creation without fear.
15. He resurrects without difficulty.
16. He has always existed with all his attributes before creation. Bringing creation into existence did not add anything new to his attributes that was not already there.
17. And as he always was, with his attributes, in pre eternity, so he will remain such everlastingly.
18. It was not only after creating the creation he gained attribute of the creator nor only after originating entities he gained attribute of the originator.
19. He was always the lord even when there was nothing to be lord of, and always was the creator even when there was no creation.
20. Although he is attributed with being the resurrector, he has that attribute before resurrecting anything.
21. He is supreme omnipotent over everything.
22. Everything is in complete need of him.
23. Everything is easy for him.
24. He is not in need of anything.
25. Nothing is like him, and he is attributed with hearing and sight.
26. He created creation according to his eternal knowledge and will.
27. He destined destinies for those he created.
28. He assigned to them fixed life spans
29. Nothing was hidden from him before he created them.
30. He (eternally) know what creation would do before he created them.
31. He ordered them to obey him and forbade them to disobey him.
32. Everything happens according to his decree and will
33. His will is executed. The will of the creation cannot overcome his will. What he wills occurs and what he does not will can never happen.
34. He guides whom ever he wills, protects them, and keeps them safe from harm, out of his kindness and generosity.
35. He leads astray whoever he wills, disgraces them, and afflicts them out of his justice.
36. All creation is subjected by his will moving between his generosity and his justice.
37. He is above being attributed with opposite equals.
38. No one can ward off his decree.
39. No one can void his sentence. No one can overpower his commands.
40. We have complete faith in him, and believe firmly that everything happens due to him..
beautiful explanation
Powerful
Looking to have a connection with God may not be the right idea. In this world of God, Islam, and His creation, there is this one creation who has taken a vow to lead men to astray. So, if someone is actively looking for some sort of response, this trickster might show up instead. Best option is probably to submit fully and then chill. I guess signs will show up.
bruh really has the Giga chad chin
I am just still more confused ...
Let's take an analogy of a "table"
A table can be a place to sit or keep things or eat on or work on .
Traditionally the table is a table. It's used to hold things or support load but functionality can be many .
Why will the Inference of what a god is not have the same arbitrary Reason to exist as above ??
I have No problem with what u do with the "Table " or what "God " is to people but are u not deciding things based on "Functionality " ......Was it ever a "Table " in the first place ??
Curious
“There is nothing like unto him”
Drakes brother allahs plan
Love the these guys serenity…
If all of these descriptions are the case: "No human likeness...
No human imperfection can be attributed...no partners...no image of him can be constructed...his attributes are the furthest from us..
Why the insistence on calling God "Him"?
You need to Studying Semitic languages
سلام
My God, needs no name
For he cares not what I call him
I ask him for nothing,
For he has already given me everything
Who
God is highest form of intelligence organization its like you compare a plant and a cow, but difference is radically higher.
for who asking why using "He" for God
czcams.com/video/yC8NIcH3IiI/video.html
I will never get on my knees to worship God because of my fear, but rather because this life, this moment itself is simply wondrous and awesome.
Whether it’s a higher power or God, I believe it. It’s basically different names for the same entity that unites us all.
I don't get on my knees for anyone. Gladly, god is not real. If he was real, then we would have to find a way to kill him, so we could be free from such a horrible, despotic, orwellian creature.
Brother shamsi - "if I gave you 2 million $ would you thank me all the time? (Yes you would), God gave you 2 eyes why don't you thank him and worship him for the blessing that no amount of money can buy?"
Magical Thinking
Sure it does have real effects in the world, just not the ones you are aware of.
Trust in God, in the Universe, the master creator, master programmer. Be humble, you are not the creator/programmer. Live every day with love, encouragement, forgiveness. Go with it, don’t fight it. Live the good life.
All is one, one is all. As above, so below.
Parrot.
I did some bad things as a kid. Maybe that's why Im confronted with all of my imperfections
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 (KJV) For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
InshyaAllah, Palestine 🇵🇸 will be free. Doesn't matter how much strong the evil powers are.
And we know all these attributes of god and god‘s existence in the first place to be true because ……..?!?!
With all due respect - just because you can articulate a nonsensical believe in a calm and poetic way it doesn’t change the fact it’s still nonsense
I'm getting tired of all this talk about God.
Everybody wants to be right about their shit, but they always contradict each other, too much ego and sometimes(?) megalomania.
We can't and are supposed to have no idea of God, right? Then where do all these ideas come from that preachers sell as fact?
God wants this, God wants that, God says and whatever.
I am slowly convinced that the ego was already at the core the problem and still is.
Take Buddhism as an example, supposedly they don't have a god, but instead only a few laws of nature or whatever you should call them around our ego and creation.
Nirvana, karma, whatever, I don't know that well.
Doesn't it make much more sense if you just don't create a god? So you didn't even create an idea?
This must actually be the case if one consistently observes that we should not have any idea of God.
Everything else comes from the ego, the lower human spirit, and must therefore be wrong.
In any case, Buddhists are said to have no god, but are they godless because of that, or are they just the opposite?
Because they don't project their ego into this higher power?
It's mans nature as you hit on with ego. Those without a God creates one if they realize it or not. For example, transgenderism. They're trying to control nature, making themselves God's. The Bible is the word of God. It's up to you to read the word and to create your own relationship with God. Of course the word says Don forsake your gathering. With a relationship with God you'll be blessed with the spirit of discernment. This gives you discretion to know your gathering. The Church isn't a church. The Church consists of strangers all across the world. Strangers worldly speaking but spiritually you'll know them. With a relationship with God, Gods omnipresence becomes visible. Once seen, your whole world will change, promise!!
@@projectw.a.a.p.f.t.a.d7762 I've been through that, my world has been completely different since 2015 and I know the relationship you're talking about.
But it's totally inconsistent with what I keep hearing from all these preachers, that's the problem.
And even in the Buddhists, I don't see exactly what I had to experience.
But what I see in everyone equally, also in me, is the urge to postpone everything around the ego for the next life.
Paradise, Nirvana, whatever.
It's all so damn complicated, especially when someone comes up to the Bible and wants to tell me that this book is the Word of God.
Every now and then this higher Something comes up with a few not to be overlooked signs, so it communicates and then what. Then I interpret, then I write. And then it's nothing more than my interpretation, my words and by no means the words of God, especially when I couldn't overcome my ego while writing.
That's how the Bible came into being, people interpreted and wrote.
The only chance to know the truth is if you have the same experiences, experience the same things, and then compare your own interpretation with that which has been written for thousands of years.
For example, the scourging and crucifixion.
However, every written sentence read, every wisdom in word and writing, or every mathematical formula learned, does not nearly replace the decades it took to come up with it.
Nothing replaces the life experiences that were needed for all of this, but the prevailing belief seems to me that eating a little results replaces all that what was needed.
For example, is it more important to have learned the number pi and its applications, or would it not be more important to have learned to ask questions which ultimately result in the creation of that number and its applications?
However, I wonder what's the point of eating the Bible and learning God's supposed Word when God is there 24/7 and can communicate with me at any time, assuming I'm in the mood to listen.
And that is where our priority should be, listening to nature, to creation, to life.
In a book you quickly read only what you want to read.
If you write one, you write it quickly the way you want to read it.
@@projectw.a.a.p.f.t.a.d7762 The point with the transgender is a difficult thing, an issue in itself, I just do not have the appropriate words in mind.
But it seems to me to be the exact opposite of what should be done, which is figuring out who you really are. Why you're here, what core your soul has.
Or maybe it's just because the possibilities to be oneself are becoming more and more difficult, or are being placed more and more on the outside.
Maybe they're just confusing the inside with the outside.
I don't know.
@@svenboelling5251 you speaking about a foundation axiom. God gives a solid foundation axiom.
@@projectw.a.a.p.f.t.a.d7762 Yes, of course. .
But what if that axiom is one that destroys your ego built on lies and can drive you to death?
Like it was with Judas?
Do you believe God, or whoever or whatever will force this base on you if you're not ready for it? This base exists, it is offered, but you have to put yourself on it and that is the problem.
And that reminds me what bothers me about all the holy books.
There is no justification for the interpretation.
It's missing that "I think God wanted to tell me this and that because this and that happened when I thought this and that. . . . "
Where is the description of the way of communication?
Not to mention keeping the possibility open for future generations that they might have made a mistake?
Yeah that's very cool but now just type "punishments in islam" in the YT search bar and enjoy.
I would personally add that any "divine" and "perfect" book could have avoided all of this without any ambiguity.
But hey, gotta take my word for it, everything evens out in this famous afterlife that no one can ever testify about.
How funny that all miracles and revelations just stopped now that everyone carries a video recorder (smartphone).
I however agree that life as it is is utterly fabulous, psychedelic, miraculous and enigmatic.
Yes there are punishments for the criminals and who spread corruption in the land....
It is foolish to not punish murderers rapists (oh sorry most westerners love rapists ). ..
Well, i think we are not the most developed spieces in the universe. There are most likely spieces that look at us as apes. And there might be spieces that look at them as apes. This might continue many times....In the end.. There is God... Because of evolution this must be the best explanation on a God...And I am actually using Darwin as an explanation....
Should of asked, "Are all other worshipers of other gods going to hell?"
There is no other gods
He invoked Malcolm X it is only fair you have on Dr. Wesley Muhammad a current student to Defend the teachings of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and The Nation of Islam
The universe was begotten, or created, by God, so why would he say such a weird thing like God, has not begotten?
the verse in quran talks about begotten as having a child... To counter polytheistic Christian arguments of jesus being a son of god
@@yazicib1 Christians are monotheistic , the Trinity is one God, if they can't understand that, then why argue against it, why not learn more about it? From what I gather there is an example of God being able to bilocate, or being in multipleplacesat one instant(John 1:32-34, 1john 5:7, Matthew 28:19) they may not say Trinity, but the student's of Christ do.I think anything is possible with God, and to say otherwise limits his potentiality.
@@ineffable_potentiality_01 The trinity is a madeup construct. It does not resemble the teachings of Jesus. Jesus prayed to one God only. The trinity is not a monotheistic faith regardless if you say it is. 3 cannot be 1. God is one and only one, anything and anyone else whether it is Jesus or the spitit is not part of God nor is God.
"He begets not"..."He is beyond the limitations of man"...okay so then don't limit him by saying what he doesn't do, when he clearly did do that.
By this logic then God can kill himself, atleast use brain to make an argument
@@MrChughad how does that follow what I said in any way?
God is you remember that
There is only one thing. No leaf falls randomly. Patience be with us.
there is more than one thing.
Do you agree with execution of apostates?
It is not for the mortal to assign irredeemableness.
@@Hatrackman your statement assumes there is something other than a mere mortal….
@@marcwells03 don't even try, he sounds like he already hardcore drinks the cool-aid
HE is he?
God has no gender, Go deep dive Why the Qur'an called God as "He"
it seems to me he answered a what question more than a who question. (this also could be a distinction without a difference)
no no, he answered it correctly.
Listen carefully
the Quran and every religious book is human made and human invented!!! But religious cults worked to gain members cause people like the idea of a god. But it’s completely invented by human thoughts. But believe to what you want to believe. ;) No human may judge if someone don’t like the Quran or think it’s completely crab. Everybody also may think that. !!!!
I always hated the idea that God is pure and perfect and loving but if you simply don't worship him you go to hell? Like yeah he loves you but you better get on them knees boy that hellfire is HOT. Such a massive contradiction. If he's so perfect and pure and loving the absolute last thing he would want is to be worshiped like a god. It's so odd. In the same breathe a believer tells you how great God is they will also describe him as an evil, illogical, tyrant and they seem completely blind to it. To me it seems like their god is simply a devil that pulled the wool over their eyes controlling them through fear of infinity torture in hell or the promise of reward for obedience in heaven. He is literally a tyrant king.
Are you equating human purity(not wanting to be worshipped) with God's purity?
Are you so pure that you think you can judge God?
If you're so pure the last thing you'd want is "simply" denying worship with a whole essay, using whataboutism to paint God as impure as if distracting from your own
As he said, God cannot be understood with the human mind and all that in that direction. You can't imagine God or anything.
Human megalomania must then be responsible for the fact that so many believers have an image of God in their minds that must not be shaken.
God wants this, God wants that, God forgives and punishes and the list is long.
In most cases, it is likely that only a human being has concluded on God by himself.
Or a community has agreed on a picture.
Just like when someone gets angry, feels dishonored, and then comes murderous on a victim and claims that God wants you to die or something.
It's megalomania.
That's really reductive.. it says that if a person believes a message is the ultimate truth, but denies it, then they'll go into the trial. You can use the same analogy with lets say, gravity, it does exist and you know its true but you wholehearted refuse to acknowledge the existence of gravity.. that's what will constitute whether you're going to he'll or not...
In Islam if you've never been given the message, you'll be judged by your moral action in the world...
@@revimfadli4666 No, I'm not "so pure" that I can "judge god". Simply god is imaginary, he is your mental health issue, not mine.
This is why I see Christianity to be true. The one requirement is to be grateful for the gifts that God has bestowed upon you and to do your best out to live out your life in his image. Submission to God is not to perform rituals constantly, but to humble yourself and have faith that God will take care of you. He takes care of the birds, does he not? Does he love us less than the birds?
All the while we must avoid sin and temptation. The devil is very real and seeks to destroy, but while Satan may can overpower man, he cannot overpower God, so as long as one trusts in God, does not succumb to fear, and has courage, one will be alright. even if they slip up from time to time. There are no rungs of Hell, there are no hierarchies other than Man and God, at least if the religion is followed by the book and the words of Christ. Hell is a state of disconnection with God and a place that we can find ourselves in, both personally and societally. It manifests on Earth from time to time. It is not a punishment for not submitting oneself, but rather is a consequence of submitting oneself to sin. God is not prideful, God does not demand work from us, simply acceptance. In fact, God made the sacrifice on our behalf because we are simply not capable. The world is a battle of good and evil, and to sit on the fence is to pick a side.
Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as you would yourself. This is how you find your way to heaven.
Also... don't worship the Beast. No matter how easy or tempting it may be.
if god is a he, what is his gender and sex, and how can we prove it?
There are untold billions of Gods and Goddesses not only one! Albeit there's only one Creator who isn't a male or female and was never a human and will never be a human.
God has no gender, Go deep dive Why the Qur'an called God as "He"
@@Synclon Seems that God gave man an imperfect language where gender is all jacked up.
Referring to God with pronouns implies an image and should be avoided.
"no image can be constructed", and yet "he" is presented in various images here by a man who claims to know what God pursues and what God rewards and what is good to God is good to humanity. These are images, no? The most beautiful thing in Islam to me is that the Prophet was told to read and he finally submitted to what seemed impossible, to read despite being unable and then for months after there was nothing to read, just silence, unknowing, discomfort, and desire
This must be one of the strangest argument I have ever read. We know God with what God revealed to us. It’s all in the Quran. And the prophet kept having revelation to him for 23 years after.
@@ebadebadi4542 Quran/Bible/Torah/Dhammapadha These are all images. I think they are beautiful books and worthy of all due respect and if one's religion brings one peace, this is also beautiful. But it seems to me that true submission is to understand my utter nothingness and the nothingness of anything finite, including any language or book or word or image. Even when I say God is beyond these books and human languages, that too is an image. It does not matter if I am strange or correct or if someone's opinion differs. Our opinions and revelations arrive through forces of survival and are otherwise beyond our understanding. By the very definition of God being beyond all, then God is nothing any finite being can ever hope to understand. This is why that silence before the Quran was the holiest of expressions to me. It is enormously hard to let go of meaning, to wait, and to stand alone in nothingness before God. And, nowadays, it is hard to be seen as a heretic for desiring to let go of all, absolutely all images, including this very letting go itself. Peace be with you,
Inshallah
Where are the images in what this man said? And about the “he” you should look for its use in Arabic.
a hint: it’s not only a masculine pronoun
Simply prove you didn't make this whole god thing up
Sounds like there's a whole lot of "everything awesome that cant be questioned...oh but no evidence"
Would ignoring human limitations and acting like knowing everything be better?
@@revimfadli4666 It's not a one or the other. Not blindly beliving something just because you're told to isn't unhealthy.
There's a reason the overwhelming majority of religious people follow the religion of their region/geography.
@@revimfadli4666 The irony is very strong in this one. Accepting our human limitations means accepting that some questions will remain unanswered. Inventing a god is the opposit, It is proclaiming an answer to questions that can not be answered within our human limitations.
@@ballsdeepinglory3054 "Accepting our human limitations
means accepting that some questions will remain unanswered."
Isn't that what I said? The irony of calling it "irony"
"Inventing a god is the
opposit, It is proclaiming an answer to questions that can not be answered within our human limitations."
The irony is very strong in proclaiming "inventing a god" as the answer to the question of "what actually happened?". Didn't you also say something about questions that can not be answered within our human limitations?
@@Plague_Doc22 "lt's not a one or the
other."
Who said it is?
"Not blindly beliving something
just because you're told to isn't
unhealthy."
Where does one draw the line between "not blindly believing something" and "blindly disbelieving something"? And does it stay healthy?
"There's a reason the overwhelming
majority of religious people
follow the religion of their region/
geography."
What reason? Is there a reason you didn't say it?
Does this correlation also apply to the local brand of "non-belief"?
Intellectual barriers in causing one’s disbelief in God? Well, I could say the same about those that believe so blindly in God.
Exhibit 1
(also whataboutism?)
I mean modern atheists dint understand atheism at all. What we call Apatheism today is what the original Atheism is all about, modern Atheists are just Scietism where the science is the god.
So it's no difference to where a Religious person would put God as their god, a hedonist puts pleasure as god, and scientism put science as their god.
(Science changes with every new discoveries thus current scientism shouldn't even think of current science as a foolproof evidence)
Not exactly, a belief in god isn't so much an intellectual barrier, it's a mental health problem. For 99 out of 100 possible hallucinations, we would send them to a psychiatrist, but for a few, we instead send them to a church. Doesn't make it any less of a mental health issue.
@almafuertegmailcom Acknowledging that the ultimate reality might be beyond the mere physical manifestation that we can observe and comprehend is a "mental health issue"?
I've read some small minded hubris before, but damn, that takes the cake.
@@LuckyFlesh If you open your head too much, your brain will fall out.
To claim God is a he or a she shows you do not understand what the true concept of God is.
You need to Studying Semitic languages
God has no gender, Go deep dive Why the Qur'an called God as "He"
and what's the penalty for apostasy again?
Maansha Allah ❤️ ❤️
why people refer to god as a he is beyond me :)
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God has no gender, Go deep dive Why the Qur'an called God as "He"
So, “no human likeness” but he refers to God as “he”. Make of that what you will.
Quran refers to God as HE (sometimes even US -royal US not multiple gods US-) just like many other religions. It is a language thing as Islamic God doesn't have a gender (neither Jewish God as far as I know. But when you describe yourself to humans, it is best to use words they can understand readily, and qualifying them as needed)
God has no gender, Go deep dive Why the Qur'an called God as "He"
Funny how god is automatically personified as a "him".....
Quran refers to God as HE (sometimes even US -royal US not multiple gods US-) just like many other religions. It is a language thing as Islamic God doesn't have a gender (neither Jewish God as far as I know. But when you describe yourself to humans, it is best to use words they can understand readily, and qualifying them as needed)
He really likes using the word "suppli cate"...
religion = proto-reasoning
this is so contradictory, no likeness to humans yet you call God a him.. wake up
God has no gender, Go deep dive Why the Qur'an called God as "He"
Allah is omnipotent, but he can't become human?
The following assumes, as Muslims teach, that the Qurán is dictated by God and is an eternal book in heaven:
Allah is omnipotent, but he can't figure out that Christians have never believed that the Trinity is the Father, Jesus and Mary?
(And [beware the Day] when Allah will say, “O Jesus, Son of Mary, did you say to the people, ‘Take me and my mother as deities besides Allah?'” 5:116 Quran)
Allah is omnipotent, but he couldn't tell Muhammad that Mary the mother of Jesus was NOT the sister of Moses?
(At length she brought (the babe) to her people, carrying him (in her arms), They said: "O Mary! Truly a strange thing has thou brought! "O sister of Aaron (the brother of Moses), thy father was not a man of evil, nor your mother a woman unchaste!"
-- Sura 19:27-28) And if the suggestion is that Mary was in the same priestly line, then sister is not a decendent of Aaron, and only Aaron's decedents were priests.
Allah is omnipotent, but he can't figure out that the story about Jesus killing a friend and then raising him from death, or turning a stone bird sculpture into a living bird, are all from apocriphal gospels written hundreds of years after Jesus lived?
Allah is omnipotent, but he couldn't preserve the OT and NT from corruption?
iSnt it all a metaphor, that "God" is everything intangable that is awesome?, so it has inherent High Value? A Desire for God is a metaphor, the same as a desire to know Absolute Truth,
Therefore have mercy upon those that pursue Truth, or interpret God differently than you. Or dare I say, have mercy on Unitarian Universalists, and Sufi. Or dare I say, have mercy on(antisuperNatural/non-nonlocal) Local cause-and-effect Material Physicalists whose standard of Evidence ,which is only Redundant Repeatablitiy of Future Prediction. is the most Rigid and Strict of Methodology that yields the most Empirical Confidence of exactly What-Truth/Reality-Is, which will naturaly lead to Atheism, ONLY because everything is demonstrated to be Localized Causation. This type of scientific atheism is not the same popcultural definitions of Atheism.
Allah is by definition "The Absolute Truth", one of the 99 names, Al-Haqq literally translates to "The Absolute Truth"
Charming, eloquent, and likable guy. What he says here sounds wonderful. Now let's turn it up a notch. Does he believe Mohammed split the moon? What are his thoughts on the marriage to Aisha? Did he indeed have conversations with Gabriel in a cave?
She was 6 and the pedo prophet was 52. That’s not disgusting.😢. How about executing apostates?
There’s multiple eye testimony of the moon splitting. There’s even records in Indian text. But it’s a miracle for the people at that time. You should be questioning the miracle still with us which is the Quran. Aisha was already in a marriage agreement with someone else before the prophet. Because of cultural differences in those time, a women was someone that had her menstruations. The Quran doesn’t state an age but 2 criteria. Menstruation and maturity( which depends on the society). You can’t judge norms of the past with norms of the present. And for Gabrielle you just have to test it out yourself. He wasn’t known as a liar. His name was trusted one in his society. It wasn’t a devil because a devil will not tell a society to stop worshiping idols and worship one god. He was delusional based on the beauty of the Quran and the complexity of it. Therefore he did actually saw Gabrielle. These questions are very easy to answer if you just do a little research.
@@ebadebadi4542 Hello. Yes, I know all of the apologetics for your points and I know the counter-apologetics. I believe it is more likely the claims for Islam are false. As for the cultural differences and Aisha, I agree. The problem is that people today still marrying children and justifying it through their Prophet.
@@ubersheizer5398 you cannot judge a religion based on the actions of the believers. What does Islam say about this not what Muslims do. And tbh there is no way a men in de desert 1400 years ago, that was illiterate.
@@ebadebadi4542 I do not think Christianity is true either. I am a naturalist.
Love is god too me Lex
Ahumduallah
Why refer to god as “he; him”? I thought god was genderless…
Thats why the definition of god has been told in arabic, because in arabic they have special word character for god, no gender
For a god to be a male, is the First and ultimatly only failure These theists make and is proof of their falability and insecurity.
He is not male
Qur'an 42
11. Originator of the heavens and the earth. He made for you mates from among yourselves, and pairs of animals, by means of which He multiplies you. There is nothing like Him. He is the Hearing, the Seeing.
He not he
God has no gender, Go deep dive Why the Qur'an called God as "He"
Be begets not…..how about psalm 2? You will find out who God is through his son Jesus Christ.
This guy gives me the creeps man
Why do I feel like I am listening to a parrot that is repeating words presented as an answer?
Because religion asks its followers to stop thinking
@@mattofruitloop You also sound like a parrot.
Religion has caused more suffering and pain than anything else in history.
No
Adolf Hitler, Mao zedong, Stalin , Bush, Obama , Mussolini, are few SAINTS that took birth during 19th 20th and 21st century..
And the fact is these saints SAVED more lives BY WAGING WARS AND INVADING OTHERs than any other MEN in history...
So you are right....
These highly religious people have destroyed world by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki....
Why is god any gender?
God has no gender, Go deep dive Why the Qur'an called God as "He"
I will „waste“ these 8minutes of my life just out of curiosity for the delusions of half the humans on this planet.
So many people believe in ancient schizophrenics being messiahs it would hurt thinking about it if it wasn’t funny and sad at the same time. Full entertainment spectrum.
Cheers to relgious fanatics not hurting other people and religious families not restricting their children’s thinking too much.
Aw god damnit. I made it to 90seconds. Bye.
(0:49) - "no human imperfection can be attributed to him"
*literally only three minutes later*
(3:49) - "it was important for me to learn about god through my difficulties" (talking about sick parent, racism etc.)
how can you learn about god through racism when no human imperfection can be attributed to him? 🤔
Me
Can we just admit we don't know anything about God and that we are still unsure what God even means.
God. A one-time mortal, next higher than Lord God ruler over all the people on earth, and in the lower heavens, for a season.
Lord God. A one-time mortal, next higher than Lord, ruler over part of the people on earth and the lower heavens, for a season.
Lord. A one-time mortal, ruler over part of the people on earth for a season.
God said: I am, as any other spirit of the dead, a one-time man upon the earth, thy elder brother of tens of thousands of years' experience. Distinguish, then, that the twain God and Jehovih are not the same one. No more is thy God than what thou shalt be in time to come, and all angels, the Gods and Lords and generals and captains and chiefs in heaven are but the brothers and sisters of mortals and the spirits of the dead; and none of these, however exalted, can create Life or Motion or an Individual or Person. These are from Jehovih, The Creator.
He is beyond description of man yet I will keep reducing it by referring to it as a gender because of political purposes of course🤣
Boom 💥
A lot of adjectives for defining a noun?! He is confused as most of the other Muslims. He is trying to define GOD in terms of functionality. He and Islam is not wrong though, because the term GOD when used, refers to the essence of the collective consciousness. This is precisely why GOD in Islam has both types of opposite traits: the merciful as well as the cruel, the creator as well as the destructor. Because collective consciousness can go either ways. So, yes GOD can be your worst nightmare in a society in which most people are evil.
Adjective - The word that define a noun...
Ofcourse he will use ADJECTIVE
it's simple English..
He is not confused...
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. -Colossians 1:12-18
So its a “He” ??
God has no gender, Go deep dive Why the Qur'an called God as "He"
Sounds good in theory....
But that's just a theory....
A film theory
How do you know god is a he? 🤔
He Not he
Its in The Qur'an
God has no gender, Go deep dive Why the Qur'an called God as "He"
@@Synclon if god has no gender then why is the Quran putting a specific gender on it?
@@oosa358 Where's did The Qur'an Says God has Gender? And Where's the specific verse that says that?
According to Qur,an Allah is not a spirit ,not Love
Muslim repeating 5 times a day that * there is no god .only Allah and Mohd is Allah Massinger Then question,is : who is Allah if Allah is not a God,
All beautifully words and attributes about God he said
Al ready mention gospel and Torah 3000 years ago & word god is not a name but pronoun but ,Jehovah is name. Of God not
Allah..
God is a not
And yet there is zero proof. 🤔 I wonder if the dinosaurs believed in "him".
What proof do you have that he doesn’t exist?
@@Aliillustrations Give me a factual definition of god and I will prove you that he doesnt exist.
When I talk about my imaginary friends I get sent to a hospital, and put on sedatives...double standards.
there’s no God other than the one who created the Air that we breathing,nothing never ever like him,he’s glorious he’s worthy of worship;he’s the one we pray five times A day and appreciated him for letting us worship,he’s the only one who gives and forgive,all thanks to the Holy Almighty Allah🤲آميين